Note to self: When winter comes, get out of the house.

Home again. Life is continuing at rapid speed. I have started work, Shelby is being baby sat by a close friend and Simon is approaching his last year of school. If I wasn't smart I would say I can almost see what is in the horizon, but I'm smart and just like the earth our lives are always moving and our plans are usually too far in the distance to see if they will turn out the way we want them too. So I will just say we are happy living life one day at a time where there is a constant hope of a future. mmmm bye bye. Pictures are from a hike that I can't remember the name of.

Danes and Americans: I am updating our USA adventures on my Sommerland blog! Check it out!

Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do you hear? Shelby enjoyed her first birthday at the zoo in copenhagen.

We are on the Outer Banks visiting for a month, which is a MUCH needed trip for the both of us. We hope to get some quality time with friends and family and some relaxation. The first week we are staying with my parents awaiting the arrival of chad and april on tuesday. They will be here until Saturday. The second week we are moving to the cottage and expect yawl to get you fannies over there :) Third we are flirting with the idea of Boone depending on the Everharts calender. And the last week we are back with my parents for the remaining days until we depart for home again the 27 of July.

We look forward to seeing all of you! We are getting ready to venture out to the beach so I'm outtie! Can't wait to see yawl!

We just celebrated Inger's 27th birthday at a lovely restaurant on the edge of a forest by the sea. There was a buffet full of greasy, traditional Danish food, and it was so YUMMY. There were many highlights of the day including an aggressive chiwawa and a man that could not throw a ball, but the main attraction aside from shelby was the youthful looking Inger who paid for our dinner ;) We love you farmor! and it is alway, always hyggelig being with you. You are not only the best grandmother (aside from you mom, of course) but the very best mother inlaw anyone could wish for! (and I am not just kissing your butt for more of your homemade falafels again). Thanks for a great day!

And fyi, shelby has learned how to point at everything and then say what it is in a whispering foreign tongue that neither of us can understand. She is pretty social and very busy watching the world go by, trying if she may, to emerge herself into her enviroment as much as her body and parents will allow. Shelby is on the verge of walking and testing her boundries and us every step of the way. Tantrums on the homefront are frequent at the moment, but when she is out and about she tends to be quite polite. Simon and I can't wait to take her to the states to show her off!

As for us (the parents), we have a wedding tomorrow and aunt Charlotte and our friend from the faroes are coming to stay so I best get myself to the grocery store and do some shopping for a new cardigan for my wedding outfit. Simon says it reveals too much otherwise...bye bye now!

Shelby's first siting of Dart Vaper. And her first words or name: bob dole.

Another awesome birthday gone by. This is what I recieved from my husband and his parents! A bike trailer, so the little one and I don't have to be constrained to a car this spring and summer. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing that I love more than my car, but when the weather is nice outside, and I need the exercise (and I need the exercise) this is where it's at. I love it!! Thanks to my wonderful inlaws and my dear husband who knew that I needed this more than an iphone!